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Surgical management of lumbar spinal stenosis.
Spine 1987 October
Eighty consecutive patients with lumbar spinal stenosis surgically treated during a 5-year period by the author were reviewed. Patients were placed in the following categories: lateral spinal stenosis (10), central-mixed stenosis (29), spinal stenosis after laminectomy and/or fusion (32), and spinal stenosis with degenerative scoliosis (9). Contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CT) scans were helpful in determining the levels requiring decompression. However, in the multiply operated patient, contrast-enhanced CT scans were misleading in six patients. Patients with lateral spinal stenosis were treated with unilateral laminectomy and partial facetectomy. The 29 patients with central-mixed stenosis underwent decompressive laminectomy and bilateral facetectomies. Six fusions were done. In the nine patients with spinal stenosis and scoliosis, concaveside partial facetectomies and laminectomies were done as well as spinal fusions. The 32 patients with spinal stenosis after previous laminectomy and spinal fusions were the most difficult group to analyze, and their treatment was the least standardized. There were 19 good, eight fair, and five poor results in those who had undergone previous surgery. Fifty-seven of the 80 patients (71%) experienced a good result from their surgical treatment.
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